Hiera-Ansible retriever

Why?

I need a way to centralize all variables that I will use into Puppet and Ansible, this is a great and simple way to do it.

Requirements

• Must be executed into Puppet Master:
  • Because of how Hiera/Puppet/Ansible works, it's necessary to copy Hiera Data and Hiera config to destination node to be parsed (instead of you already got it into a DB Backend) (This module will works perfectly with an remote backend only you will need the Hiera Config).
• Hiera as a requirement installed into destination nodes.
• Hiera config File into destination nodes (With the same hierarchi as you need).
• Hiera Lookup is also a must to be executed on the Puppetmaster/Hiera node to works propertly, because of how Lookups works in ansible all lookup plugins only are executed on the ansible host, agains for example a module, that could be executed remotely

Capabilities:

• Use Hiera Data into your Ansible Playbooks/Roles allowing centralization of Key/Value Data in a Git repository.
• Could be executed agains almost all hierarchi (Just add more context)
• You could use every hiera data type, and will be ready to use into Ansible as a Fact

How Can I use it into my Ansible Playbooks/Roles

Just copy the 'library' folder into your project and use the Hiera-Ansible module as we show into the examples.

Examples

• Stand-Alone node (no Puppetmaster)
• Hiera Lookup (on a Puppetmaster)
• With Puppetmaster against remote/s node/s